Patricia Moyes nee Pakenham-Walsh (1923-2000) was born in Dublin and educated at Overstone girls´ school in Northampton. In 1939, she joined the WAAF. She always wanted to write and during her years as a flight officer she wrote sketches for barrack concerts. Peter Ustinov asked her to be his technical assistant on the film School for Secrets about the discovery of radar. They became friends. She later became his personal assistant for eight years. In 1951, she married the photographer John Moyes. The marriage broke up in 1959. She later married James Haszard, a lawyer and interpreter at the international court of justice in The Hague. She was the creator of Scotland Yard detective Henry Tibbett.

Bibliography

Dead Men Don't Ski (1959)

The Sunken Sailor aka Down Among the Dead Men (1961)

Death on the Agenda (1962)

Murder a la Mode (1963)

Falling Star (1964)

Johnny Under Ground (1965)

To Kill a Coconut aka The Coconut Killings (1966)

Murder Fantastical (1967)

Death and the Dutch Uncle (1968)

Who Saw Her Die? aka Many Deadly Returns (1970)

Season of Snows and Sins (1971)

The Curious Affair of the Third Dog (1973)

Black Widower (1975)

Who Is Simon Warwick? (1978)

Angel Death (1980)

A Six-Letter Word for Death (1983)

Night Ferry to Death (1985)

Black Girl, White Girl (1989)

Twice in a Blue Moon (1993)